It's year 2186, after destruction ending FemShep survives, she romanced Liara (from ME1 - ME3 and remained faithful through ME2). Most of the characters survived (with obvious exception of Thane, Kaidan/Ashley - not sure who (yet) and best father-like figure of all time Admiral David Anderson). One big change is that FemShep has an older brother (basicly MaleShep). FemShep has spacer origin, while John Shepard was running around with gangs on earth. Rebuilding after the reapers is all the rage now, somehow tensions between galactic races arise and new war may be coming sooner than anyone would like.

I have been reading some ME fan fictions lately after I read all the comics and finished yet another playthrough of the trilogy I decided to try my very own attempt at writing and hopefully improve my english in the proces.

Finally they let her out of the hospital. Not that she is in full health again, but she can move around on her own and her presence is needed on ceremony of reactivating damaged Charon Relay. How could this great occasion go without its' hero the great Commander Shepard. This will be great morale boost for all mankind - one of few remaining human celebrities in the galaxy and Earth will be once again reconnected with the rest of the galaxy. But that doesn't trouble Shepard of course. Normandy returned back to Earth when she was still in coma and onboard were all her friends. They returned to their respective homeworlds the first chance they got, but not before they visited Shepard in the hospital. But the only thing that matters to her now - Liara decided to stay on Earth with her commander. She was visiting her every day and now they'll meet for the first time, since the battle of Earth, outside the hospital. Shepard is already in her formal uniform, waiting for her ride to the station. And the Alliance has sent her brother for her of course, who got promoted after the war and so he's now also commander. She does not exactly love him. He's been nothing but trouble for their family most of his life, but he always got away with it. That's what happens when your father is Captain of a battleship in the Alliance and close friend with certain Admiral Hackett and back then Captain Anderson. However, when he really messed up, it was prison or service in the Alliance. Since he joined, it was Jane's job to clean after him. But he got really good at it and when his sentence ended, he decided to stay in the Army. It was all OK as long, as she was THE Shepard. But then she died for two years, then she worked with Cerberus for some time and after that the Alliance kept her imprisoned for some time and in the meantime he caught up with her in his carrier. She can't help but feel how unfair it is, that she worked for this her entire life and he just jumps in. But he's her brother after all...

"Hey, Jane!" He walks up to her and hugs her. "You up already? How are you feelin'?"

"Everything fuckin' hurts like hell and I feel like my face is gonna fall apart any time now…" she's referring to her newes scar. She has acquired quite a few of them during her service, but those are usually hidden under armor or clothes. Now she has few more, including one over her eye stretching from right side of the forehead all the way down across her eye ending next to her mouth. She was never one of those women who consider good looks to be their most important quality (she was in the military her entire life after all). However that was before she met Liara - someone to look nice for.

"Nah, you still fear that asari of yours is gonna leave you because of it? She's already seen you like that many times…" John waved his arms just like that, trying to dismiss her worries. He was right of course, Liara would never left Jane because of something that stupid. "Is that all your stuff?" he immediately grabs her bag and wants to continue to talk but his sister interrupts with slightly angry face.

"She has a name you know…"

"Yeah I know, I must have heard it somewhere in the news…" he rolls his eyes and stops smiling for a moment.

"I can understand that some people just can't remember names…" she sights "but you don't have a problem with LIARA do you?" she pokes him in the chest and puts her hands on her hips while staring right in his eyes.

"Like you care…but of course I don't, whatever makes you happy sis…" he smirks at her and almost runs to the shuttle with her bag to avoid more of that conversation and she slowly follows him and limps on one leg.

Rest of the trip in the shuttle goes smoothly as John gives his sister report of everything that's been happening with the Alliance during her recovery time. She just asks about Hackett and listens for the rest of the way. She was always good at listening, probably because life-long military training. Her brother on the other hand always enjoyed talking it seemed almost like he loves listening to sound of his own voice.

xxx

Liara has already arrived on the station. As soon as she steps on board, she is swarmed by press - everyone wants to know everything about Commander Shepard's wife.

"Where are you going to live?"

"Are you planning on children?"

"Who is usually on top?"

"Is Commander going to leave the Alliance?"

"How do you think new council should look like?"

…

Liara just smiles at them and tries to make her way through the crowd. "I'm not going to say anything until Shepard gets here." She needs to talk to her Shepard first. There are certain news, whether good or bad she's not quite sure. Guess it depends on how Jane will react. She feels good about it though. She just can't stop smiling and can't wait for Shepard. As she enters dining room where the actual celebration is taking place, she's stunned by the smell of incredible amount of food of all kinds. It's hard to get lots of stuff after the war, as economies of each civilization were still relying heavily on their home planets. There were exceptions like Illium and other places, but those didn't have necessary defenses like Earth or Palaven and so they didn't last long. Liara was kind of hesitant though about filling her stomach (and pockets) as some other visitors. She was doing rather well for herself and she knew very well where all those goods come from. Humans unlike the other races had quite a few independent colonies. That was until recently, when Alliance decided, that they need their resources to help rebuild Earth and other "official" colonies. Since every government or any other authority (with the exception of Alliance) on Earth was destroyed, Alliance stepped in to hold what's left together until new civilian officials can be elected. Surprisingly the public wanted the Alliance to remain in charge. After all they were the ones who defended them with their lives, they never left people of Earth and they were the ones who actually defeated the Reapers (with little help of course, but most humans forgot that part rather fast). So in order to secure necessary resources, the Alliance is now practically occupying former independent human colonies. Many important members of other species were worried about this militaristic change in human policy. Some were saying that humans just revealed their true nature. Not everyone was against it though. Turian and Krogan society formed the same opinion. Suddenly a giant shadow appeared over her. Her eyes widen for a second and she turned around quickly as her instincts kicked in.

"Well, if it isn't my favourite Asari!" the biggest Krogan she has ever seen with huge plates and scared face spread his arms right behind her.

"Wrex!" Sparks appeared in Liara's eyes as she went for a hug with her old friend.

"More of the only Asari that we like." sounded from behind Wrex and a smaller Krogan jumped in that it made all the tables jump a little too. "Heh, heh, heh" he continued.

"Shepard taught you everything you need but manners Grunt! We are here as diplomats." And older Krogan headbutted the younger one.

"Nice to see you haven't changed Grunt." Liara put hand on his shoulder and laughed a little. "It's so nice that you came, Shepard will be happy to see you both.

"Yeah, yeah. It's a nice bonus to meet some old friends after this hell of a long trip, but that's not the main reason we're here…" Wrex looked like he wanted to say more, but instead he stopped and smiled really wide with his big mouth so that almost all teeth could be seen.

"Care to elaborate?" Liara asked with surprised face.

"You will find out in time like everyone else. No favouritism. Now it's time to feast!" and he slightly pushed Liara aside and came up to the table behind her.

Many people came up to her to exchange pleasantries, thank her for all that she's done during the war, congratulate to her hospital marriage with Shepard and to send their regards to the Commander. But suddenly the door from the hangar opened and two high ranking Alliance officers in fine uniforms came in - the Shepards! Liara's heart almost stopped for a moment. She took a deep breath and smiled from ear to ear "Shepard!"

"Yes?" - both siblings have answered.

But Liara already ran to Jane and was almost hanging on her with arms around the human's neck a hugging her so tight she could barely breath. "I'm so glad to finally see you out of the hospital! Does that mean you are going to be okay?" John realized immediately that he was the third wheel and left to mingle or something just to be somewhere else.

"Depends if you let me. I can barely stand you know." Shepard said with difficulties as she couldn't breath due to Liara's hug.

"Oh, I'm so sorry Shepard!" Liara realized her selfishness and let the human go with hands on her arms, like she was preparing to catch her. But Shepard just smiled, pulled Liara close again, pushed her to her chest (but not so tightly anymore).

"I'm fine." she said with calm voice and shared a passionate kiss with her wife. The kiss wasn't meant to draw everyone's attention, it just so happened. Everyone in the room looked at least for a moment, while some were just plain staring. That was until the krogan duo stepped next to the pair one on each side and together they both yelled "SHEPARD!" Shepard and Liara stopped and look annoyed on both Krogans. "It's great to see you here guys, but you could have wait one more minute…"

"Liara wouldn't wait if you were kissing me Shepard HA!" Wrex replied with smile on his face "I see you went for that cool facial scarring look similar to main" he said as he put her hair from her forehead aside.

"You too late Wrex she's already taken." Liara jokingly entered the conversation to change the topic as she knew it troubled Shepard.

"Ha, I know her, she's nothing but trouble keep her"

The group continued to catch up until Grunt noticed that new food was being delivered on the tables around and the Krogans suddenly disappeared.

"It should have already starred" Liara looked at Shepard.

"Nothing can ever go as planned, you should be used to that by now" Shepard looked back at Liara for a moment and kept staring at group of Quarians talking with some Alliance admirals. None of them had scarf like Tali used to wear, but she couldn't be sure that "Ms. vas Normandy" isn't among them. Finally she settled with thought that Tali would approach her if she was here and she probably isn't, cause building a house from scratch must be quite time consuming for 25 year old Quarian. Her chain of thoughts was interrupted by the sexiest voice in the galaxy.

"I'm not going to apologize for being fashionably late Liara" the conversation was already running Garrus was chatting with Liara, while primarch Victus was standing next to them talking to some Alliance officer who were directing the Turian to the improvised stage. Shepard wanted to join the conversation but her own officer suddenly appeared and dragged her to the stage. The event had started. For the next hour or so, everyone would praise Shepard and describing their favourite act of heroism Jane had performed during her carrier. It was all nice and all but she felt like being on her own funeral. That was until the Krogan delegation described how she bailed out Grunt after partying on the citadel. Finally they released her. She was swarmed by the press as soon as she walked down from the stage. She just hit her left palm with her right fist - all reporters understood and let her go.

"I remember some of those events kinda differently" Liara smiled at Shepard "Now if you have some strength left, I would like to tell you something too" her eyes were like little blue stars, they were shining and sparkling and she was smiling like little kid in front of christmas tree with shitload of presents underneath.

Shepard look something between surprised and worried "Go ahead".

"You remember the night few months ago, the night before the battle for Earth?"

"You mean the best night of my life? Hell yeah I DO remember it!" I like where this is going, someone's gonna score tonight! She thought, after all that time in the hospital she was ready for it.

"Yes, it was beautiful" Liara chuckled a little "And before that, when we met on the Normandy after you helped me deal with the Shadow Broker and before you charged through the Omega 4 relay, when you told me you'd like for us to settle down and have "a lot of blue children"?" she smiled.

"Yep, that's still the plan, unless you haven't changed your mind. I…" Liara stopped her before she even knew what she was going to say.

"It seems the time has come Shepard. I'm with child." She looked at the human with serious expression on her face, to make it clear that she's not joking around.

"Y-You are? That's… that's great! I.. It's wonderful!" she managed to form some words together. There was a lot going through her head right now, it was hard to talk.

"Well that's even better reaction than I could have hoped for. I didn't expect to make Commander Shepard stutter" Liara laughed out loud.

"Well, it is mine right?" Shepard looked suspiciously at the Asari.

"Of course it is!" Liara looked insulted and pushed Shepard slightly into her shoulder.

"Relax" she laughed "just wanted to make sure. Let's get out of here!"

"What? There are delegations from all over the galaxy and they have something important to announce, we should wait here." Liara insisted "What could be more important?"

"Come I'll show you" Shepard laughed loud enough to get attention of few guests and reporters, but she didn't seem to mind. She was holding Liara's hand as they rushed for the shuttle, leaving Krogan, Turian, Human and Quarian shaking hands with Javik in the spotlight of the cameras far behind.

Xxx

During the shuttle ride, Liara wanted to ask many times where are they going. Of course they were probably heading to Earth, as it was the only destination of some importance within the reach of the shuttle, but to what purpose? However Shepard kept bringing up questions such as: Where are they gonna live? Are they going for more children? How should they raise them? And so on. She haven't answer any of them nor she haven' expected Liara to answer them right away. She just felt the need to bring that up, there was a lot to consider. She haven't even started thinking about how is she going to approach live without constant threat of the reapers or cerberus and other troubles she's been dealing with for the last few years and now she's going to be a mother. Liara just sat there surprised how excited Shepard is, but how seriously she is approaching the situation at the same time. Finally they have touched down. The shuttle door opened and Shepard jumped out with Liara right behind her. They were in front of the stadium in Vancouver. Thousands of people were still getting in as the game has already started. Liara watched Shepard surprisingly as the Human was taking down the upper part of her uniform, uncovering white-blue jersey underneath. "Let's go, they're already playing!" Shepard waved at Liara with her arm.

"You know, that I know nothing about that game or whatever it is"

"It's never too late to learn" Shepard smiled at Liara "You are already of to a great start, you have the right colors" She laughed and showed her thumb up. Liara let the racist line pass and followed Shepard into the building. After few minutes they find their seats and sat down. Shepard took a sip of beer she grabbed on the way and yelled at Liara so she could hear her over the thousands of people cheering "Should we start picking a name or house first?" Liara didn't answer, she probably hasn't even heard her as she was focused what the hell is going on on the ice. "Liara?" Shepard asked while poking Liara to her shoulder.

"What's with all the ice?" Liara asked out of nowhere. Shepard wanted answer the silly question, but before she could start one of the players was hit by another who send him for a short flight at that instant the fans start cheering much louder and everyone was clapping their hands. "By the goddess! Is he alright?" Liara was shocked.

Shepard laughed "Relax, it's just part of the game, he's used to it."

"It looked like he killed him and all the people here were happy about it!" Liara was clearly disgusted. She was already used to dealing with humans, but since she was living on Earth, she found out, she doesn't know them for the most part. Human fascination with sports was unique in the galaxy. While every species had some kind of competitive shooting or driving etc. humans were definitely most creative in that area. Surprisingly, their culture was just as diverse and evolved. Shepard, however, isn't much of an opera or theatre type, that much she knows. And it has its' charm she thinks while she looks at Shepard who's enjoying her beer.

"You're pregnant" Shepard said suddenly.

"I know" Liara replied.

"That means no beer for you" she put the can out of her reach while smiling on Liara.

"Oh, I didn't meant to" Liara laughed.

"So, how are we gonna do this?"

"I may just take a sip" Liara reached for the tin in Shepards' hands.

The human quickly drank the rest of the golden liquid and handed the empty tin to Liara with a smile on her face "I meant the whole family thing… I don't even know how much time do we have, but we should get on it"

"We have plenty of time"

"So where are we gonna live?"

"I know, you want to stay on Earth and I guess it makes sense, since you have your work and it's relatively safe here. I think I'm gonna give that one to you."

"So you wouldn't mind?"

"Not at all, I want you to be happy, I can work from here as well and it's a beautiful world"

"Ok I like that" Shepard grabbed Liaras' hand and smiled on her "so I guess the next one is yours"

"Tomorrow we start looking for the house. And not just some house Shepard, I know you are used to live on ships, and any apartment or house would be improvement for you, but we are going to get big house with garden and everything. Home for our children."

"You realize there's a lot of work with garden…"

"We'll deal with it when we have one. Your turn"

"I'm not going to work on the garden… maybe cut the grass that's all"

"You give that one up rather easily" Liara laughed with victorious look in her eyes.

"Think of it as investment in the future. One day you'll remember this moment and you'll understand. You'll be on your knees with your blue hands all dirty and your back will hurt and I'll be there sitting on our terrace with a drink in my hand laughing at you"

"You wouldn't do that…"

"Watch me in few years"

The conversation continued late into the night until they both fell to sleep.

In the morning they woke up and started to making breakfast together with the news playing in the background. They haven't been paying much attention to it until they heard latest news from yesterdays' celebration.

"Opening of Charon relay brought us many news as Humans Systems Alliance and Turian Hierarchy refuse to rejoin the council as it proved useless in helping Palaven and Earth according to both races officials. Instead they announced new Galactic Coalition, which will consist of Humans, Turians, Krogans and Quorians. Each species announced its goals and all the other promised to help their allies reach them. The Alliance wants to unite all worlds with major human population into Alliance Space and promised to reward Krogans for their help in war by giving them all former human colonies which have lost its population as a foundation for New Krogan Empire. Turians agreed to do the same and announced their plans for building new space station for Galactic Coalition as a seat of united government instead of Citadel. Krogans are demanding reparations from species who were hesitant to join the war and for the genophage. Quarians want to focus on rebuilding Ranoch with the help or Humans, Turians and Krogans who are going to treat former nomads as equals. Asari and Salarians are worried about this course of action and offering seats in the new council for everyone who doesn't want to start another war…"

"This isn't good…" Jane said with worried voice.

"It'll settle down in time, no one wants another war right now, don't worry" Liara said while turning of the tv and taking two plates with their breakfast and putting them on the table.

"Wish I had your confidence. But you're right, we have done our part for the galaxy, and we have work to do with family and stuff."

"And stuff?" Liara asked confused.

"Didn't you want to get a house?"

"You're right" Liara said as she was stopped by doorbell "who could that be?"

"Let's see, I hope no fans found out where we live…" Shepard said while opening the door.

Two officers stayed outside "Commander Shepard, you have been reinstated into active service according to law in time of war…"

To be continued, let me know what should I improve or whether I should stop this :D I would appreciate grammar correction the most as english isn't my main language.